linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv2 1/2] USB: gadget: mass/file storage: set serial number

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Date:	Thu, 8 Jul 2010 13:20:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Michał Nazarewicz <m.nazarewicz@...sung.com>
Cc:	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Dries Van Puymbroeck <Dries.VanPuymbroeck@...imo.com>,
	mina86@...a86.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 1/2] USB: gadget: mass/file storage: set serial number

> > Can it be made to do so only when the gadget
> > hasn't been provided with one already?  Serial
> > number module options are standard parts of the
> > composite gadget framework...
> 
> I don't see a way for the gadget to know whether user gave
> the iSerialNumber
> parameter (other then reading the iSerialNumber variable
> but I consider that  ugly).

Uglier still is the current patch overriding
that explicitly-given parameter.

NAK until this issue is resolved.



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